A wave of suicides sweeps Tokyo after 54 schoolgirls throw themselves in front of a subway train. Afterward, the police discover a strange website that displays suicides before they occur in reality.

Sam Lowry is quite content with his life. He works as a petty clerk and agrees to put up with an unsettled life against the will of his mother, who is a member of the system's elite. But suddenly he meets the girl he keeps seeing in his dreams. To meet her again, he decides to change jobs.

The 1950s. Somewhere in Mexico, expatriate William Lee spends his days indulging in drunkenness and debauchery. One day, his attention is caught by a young American named Eugene Allerton.

American Benny, thrown by God and fate into a rundown Mexican town, works as a tapper. All his problems can be solved by money, which he doesn't have. But one day he is offered a decent sum - 10 thousand dollars. For this he must only deliver to a large Mexican landowner the head of a certain Alfredo Garcia - a man from whom his daughter is pregnant.

France, 12th century. Belian, a young blacksmith, is forced to flee his homeland. He joins a group of crusaders led by his father. In one of the battles he is severely wounded and before his death he ordains his son a knight.

After a tremendous victory on the battlefield, lost in a dense forest, Lords Washizu and Miki meet a mysterious prophetic old woman who foretells a great future for Washizu, and an even greater one for Miki's descendants. Once out of the forest, they do indeed receive a summons and honorable appointments from the emperor. Wasizu, instigated by his ambitious wife, plans to go beyond the old sorceress' predictions.

Three astronauts - two men and one woman - leave Earth to start a new civilization. Landing their starship on a desert planet, they begin the work of repopulating it.

A typical American living room of a New England home. Its occupants have changed throughout the century. In the 1950s, a boy named Richard was born here. This room is where he spent his childhood and adolescence, where he graduates from high school, and where he brings his fiancée Margaret into the house. The young family is having children, all the happiest moments of their lives take place here, and here are the sad ones. The children get grandchildren, and Richard and Margaret begin to realize that their time is passing.

1950. In the home of a wealthy Neapolitan family, a luxurious carriage-bed was delivered straight from Versailles for a baby about to be born right in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea. A girl was born, and she was named Partenope in honor of the ancient Greek nymph whose name was once called Naples. Perfect in everything the girl lived to the fullest: changed lovers and hobbies, tried to start a career as an actress, studied to be an anthropologist and danced until morning. The brilliant life of the favorite of fate overshadowed only one event - the suicide of his brother Raphael, faded in the rays of bright Partenope.

A family of four moves into a house haunted by a ghost. The members of the family are absorbed in their worries, and the ghost watches them idly until the student daughter begins to sense its presence.